Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It Tang Aaron
How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologiesThe Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely…
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How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologiesThe Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices' partisan leanings rather than on a faithful reading of the law. For legal scholar Aaron Tang, however, partisanship is not the Court's root problem. Overconfidence is.Conservative and liberal justices alike have adopted a tone of uncompromising certainty in their ability to solve society's problems with just the right lawyerly arguments. The result is a Court that lurches stridently from one case to the next, delegitimizing opposing views and undermining public confidence in itself.To restore the Court's legitimacy, Tang proposes a different approach to hard cases: one in which the Court acknowledges the
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